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New Members Join INDEX: AWARD Jury
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, Feb. 2 /INDEX/ -- In 2007, the INDEX: AWARD is
presented to five winning designs in the categories Body, Home,
Work, Play & Community, and each winner receives € 100.000. The
winning designs are chosen by an international jury, which recently
was expanded by two new members.
Hael Kobayashi, recently employed as Digital Entertainment Executive
in Australia-based Animal Logic, has joined the jury of INDEX:
Design to Improve Life. Along with the rest of the jury, he has
selected the nominated designs for the world’s biggest design award,
the INDEX: AWARD, presented on August 24th 2007 in Copenhagen,
Denmark.
Hael Kobayashi is an international
and award winning professional with over 30 years experience in
film, digital media, broadcast, and the visual and performing arts.
As a pioneer in the field of digital media, Kobayashi has served as
a senior executive and producer for some of the world's leading film
and entertainment studios. Most recently, he was Group Head of
Production and Associate Producer on the digitally animated feature
film “Happy Feet” for Australia's Animal Logic. Kobayashi previously
worked on award winning feature films such as Terminator II:
Judgment Day and Godfather III at Lucasfilm’s Skywalker Ranch and
also held the position of Director of Digital Artists Production for
Lucasfilm's Industrial Light + Magic. In addition, he served in
several production management roles at PDI/DreamWorks on movies such
as Antz and The Road to Eldorado, and was the Entertainment and
Science Bureau Chief for MSNBC/ZDTV, which pioneered the use of
online communication in conjunction with simultaneous broadcast.
Within the digital games industry,
Kobayashi served as a producer for Raya Systems, overseeing content
development, art direction, and image development. The games were
designed to teach young people health awareness and prevention, and
were endorsed by the American Pediatrics Association and AMFAR, the
American Foundation for AIDS Research.
An active industry advocate and
champion for digital media development, training and education,
Kobayashi is the co-founder of the Presidential Scholars in the
Arts' film and video program in the USA. He has lectured extensively
on the disciplines of digital visual effects and animation in
Canada, USA, Australia and United Kingdom. Kobayashi has served as a
team member for creating strategies to develop digital media as part
of sustainable, economic growth for several regions in the world,
including the USA and Singapore. Most recently, he served on the
federal and state task forces for Australia's Digital Content
Industry Action Agenda, covering the fields of architecture, design,
entertainment and science.
Ravi Naidoo, founder and managing director of the Cape Town based
media and marketing company Interactive Africa, has joined the jury
of INDEX: Design to Improve Life. Along with the rest of the jury,
he has selected the nominated designs for the world’s biggest design
award, the INDEX: AWARD, presented on August 24th 2007 in
Copenhagen, Denmark.
Ravi completed his MBA degree at
University of Cape Town in 1994, where he was nominated as the
Nedbank MBA Student of the Year. Ravi also has a B.Sc. (Hons) degree
in Physiology from UCT. Besides the three years as an Account
Director at Young and Rubicam (90-93), where Ravi managed a few
multinational accounts, his main business focus has always been on
media, marketing and project management.
In 1994, Ravi founded Interactive
Africa. One of the company's more recent projects has been project
managing the First African in Space Mission and marketing of South
Africa's bid to host the 2010 Football World Cup, as well as for the
2006 campaign. He also directed the African Connection Rally – the
trip from the northern to the southern tip of Africa in April 1999,
which promoted telecommunications investment in Africa.
Ravi is the co-founder of CITI, the
Cape IT Initiative, a non-profit company is dedicated to promoting
the IT cluster in the Western Cape. He also founded the
International Design Indaba, a leading design institution, that's
best known for its flagship conference and expo held in Cape Town
annually. He also consulted to the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games
company, and assisted in their successful campaign.
Apart from his affiliation with
Interactive Africa, which successfully managed the marketing of
South Africa's Bid to host the 2010 Football World Cup, Naidoo has
launched several initiatives to spur it and telecommunications
investments in Africa. In addition, Naidoo has founded Design
Indaba, known for its annual expo and conference in Cape Town.
Facts about INDEX: Design to Improve Life:
INDEX: is a network organization,
which aims to spur public and professional awareness of the human
and commercial potential in Design to Improve Life. INDEX: pursues
this goal by awarding the biggest design award in the world,
presenting international design exhibitions, hosting summits for
world leaders on design and innovation, and by publishing and
distributing knowledge about Design to Improve Life.
• INDEX: was founded on August 15, 2002.
• Patron of INDEX: 2007 is HRH The Crown Prince of Denmark.
• INDEX: is a global non-profit network organization drawing
attention to design that substantially improves people's lives.
• Every other year, INDEX: awards the world's largest design prize,
INDEX: AWARD. The next INDEX: AWARD will be conferred on August 24,
2007, at a ceremony at Copenhagen City Hall.
• More than 170,000 people visited the INDEX: AWARD EXHIBITIONS in
2005, which were set up in five Copenhagen city squares.
• INDEX: works through an international network to ensure the best
possible access to new knowledge on design.
• INDEX: is headed up by CEO Kigge Hvid.
• INDEX: is headquartered at Danmarks Designskole in Copenhagen.
• Read more about INDEX: at
www.indexaward.dk.
Source: INDEX
CONTACT: Helena Lowskij, Head of
Press
Tel:+45 4061 7810
Tel:+45 3389 2000
E-mail: hl@indexaward.dk
Website:
www.indexaward.dk
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